The misogyny that denies rape victims justice!

The prejudice of Indian police in refusing to investigate rape by using the sexual history of the victim to blemish the latter as a "loose woman" thereby belittling the rape as consensual sex is exemplified by the following news report. The male chauvinists in the police system should know that a history of having been sexually active or even promiscuous is no excuse or justification for rape and does not reduce the pain and suffering of a rape victim weebit! How can such male chauvinists who use a sexually active history of a woman to justify her rape and to falsely "convert" the rape into consensual sex be expected to treat cases of marital rape seriously??

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Cops dismiss Noida gang rape charge

News from the conflict situation in Sri Lanka:

Click on the link below:


'Heavy losses' in S Lanka clashes



Tamil report on the conflict in Sri Lanka

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Mischievous, cuddly and childish Sneha:

A snowy high brow snooty get up!

Good girl Sneha:

The typical girl-next-door look:

Serene Sneha

I have not forgotten the screenplay and the independent film I vowed to make in honour of the "mistress of emotions" and my marital proposal for the latter !!

My literary and cinematic proposal of love to Sneha is nearing completion along with the screenplay for my first feature in Tamil and my collection of poems for her!

Hopefully I will get her to act in my first feature film in Tamil later next year if I impress her with my screenplay, poems and also my independent film (and the latter may take longer than the new year but hopefully should be ready by the end of January / February!)

And I will certainly jump into the river Thames if Sneha gets hooked up with some one else (!!) (But the problem is I don't know to swim!! But I will jump with a life jacket!!)

But will she be my woman and marry me? I have to count my lucky stars and keep waiting with fingers crossed until I get to meet her!!

Smart Sneha:

A smart pose with actor Sham for the promotion of the film "Inba":

Hip Sneha:

A Hip Look of Sneha:

Cool Sneha: A No Nonsense Cool Look Of Sneha with Coolers On:

Daring, sensual and exotic Sneha!!!

An unbelievably rare, exotic, sensual and daring pose of Sneha! (I developed severe temperature again and I think I am suffering from an acute case of "Sneha fever", once again !!

Photo: A promotional still for the film "Ravi Shastri"

Serene Sneha in sizzling green salwar at a recent function

Corrected Apologetic note from the blogger: Since access to the Internet was impeded since Thursday night and over the weekend (and still continuing) in the place where I live, my sudden bout of profuse blogging was interrupted and will resume if and when the access to the broadband is restored. My apologies.

Unforgettable women Iniyan could not meet:

Rosa Parks, who challenged physical racial segregation in the U.S. south:

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

There is no picture of Thillaiyaadi Valliammai in the internet which is a shame. But during the short period she lived, which was barely 17 years, she lived a life of a young activist who fought and died for the cause of the human rights of her people. She was a friend and disciple of Gandhi, and was a daughter of a Tamil merchant, R. Munusamy Mudaliar who had settled in South Africa. Valliammai was born in South Africa and died there. Her death was caused by the illness she suffered as a result of imprisonment under the apartheid regime.

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I was wrong to have exaggeratively stated that I am fearful to let my parents know about the fact that I am enamoured with a cinematic celebrity with-out even meeting or interacting with her in any way, and, irrespective of whether the latter accepts me or not, and the odds of it happening are indeed stacked against me)! And I dont think my mother hated me for taking up an interest in films!

I am issuing this clarification because I some times cast aspersions on my parents when I write a bit super-fluously, and I am writing this to put on record that they are not prejudiced or narrow minded people, and this note has nothing to do with any thing else.

Unforgettable women Iniyan could not meet: the late Ms. Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter, poet and Gandhian activist!

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: Indian spiritual guru "Ma Amritanandamayi" who believes that a kind embrace heals!

A rainbow coloured look that works the retinal cells in the eye!

My eyes are dazzled!

The Mistress of Emotions: the quintessential actress finds herself in character emoting to the hilt!

Smart silhouette of Sneha

Actually the hip photographs of Sneha in modern dress (given in sliced triple images in a photograph a few blogs below) were taken a couple of months ago, and she looks tired in these photos as she was on a diet at that time! Actually she looks more smarter in casual sports wear than in the frock and skirt she was wearing in that photo!

Here is a recent photograph that shows a silhouette of her in a new smart figure wearing pedal pusher jeans and a sports shirt! She is back to her attractive voluptuous looks which shows that she is not starving any more for an emaciated look! That is good news!

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: Ms. Supriya Sule - radiant personality and dynamic politician from Mahar Rashtra and daughter of Sharad Pawar!

Sneha cuts the birthday cake on the sets of "Adhi Vishnu" ! (But did she ever get to read my birthday poem written for her??)

A still of radiant and happier "Sneha from the film "Adhi Vishnu":

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Sneha goes for the modern hip look off late:

And she looks tantalisingly mature, incredibly alluring, and magnetically feminine!

Sneha as a young girl:

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One cannot be "violently and physically abused" for "realistic acting":

I was shocked to read that Sneha suffered violent physical abuse while shooting for a film last year!

I recently came across a news clip while casual web surfing which stated that during the shooting of a scene for the film "Pudu Pettai" Sneha was actually and really kicked in the abdomen by an actor (Bala Singh) at the behest of director Selva Raghavan's quest for "reality" and she had to take a break from the shoot because of the acute and unbearable pain she suffered as a result! This was from a news clipping from "Dina Thanthi" news paper dated 22/03/2006. Since this news clipping is in Sneha's approved and official fan website I am sure that this is true. I don't understand how a director could have allowed such physical abuse of an artist in the name of "reality" and this is nothing but physical abuse. As a person who wishes well and sincerely cares for her, I have to say that Sneha should not allow directors and actors to take her for granted and subject her to such physical trauma. She should assertively stand her ground and refuse to suffer physically in the name of "reality" and even walk out from shoots and demand financial compensation if she is subjected to such ill treatment! (The director would not have saved her life if she had suffered internal bleeding like the way Amithab Bachan suffered after he received a punch in the abdomen during the shoot of the film "Coolie" that almost cost his life!!) I am surprised that Sneha continued to act in the scene without protest after being really being kicked in the abdomen in the aforesaid scene. She should have protested and walked out, checked herself medically and demanded financial compensation! When another actress from Kerala recently got a director from Tamil Nadu banned for a year for slapping her, one wonders why Sneha suffered being violently kicked in the abdomen "really" for the sake of "reality" to the extent of suffering extreme pain and risk internal bleeding (that could have caused death) without protest!! She should have shown more self respect and atleast complained! I am sure the concerned villain actor and the director would not have subjected a male lead actor to such abusive trauma as they took Sneha's pain and anguish for granted! I was quite pained to read this report, even though it occurred a year ago! And I am sure the director and the actor should take full responsibility for the physical abuse and pain caused to Sneha.

I am writing this note so that all performance artists, particularly women, will not risk their lives, safety and self respect in the name of "realistic acting" and one hopes Sneha does not allow such challenges to her well being in the future which could be extremely risky to one's life itself!

Old habits die hard and I still may blog here and there if not profusely, since if I read a news report as being oppressive of my fellow human beings I cannot keep quiet unlike some people. Hence I have posted a new blog in my other blog.

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Final Note: Kindly note the corrections in the two previous blogs and I am sorry for the typographical errors because I am severely disoriented after my mobile was stolen from me which caused a severe distraction and polific errors in typing as a result.

I had to confess to readers that I had been intending to return to India once I was confident of attaining the academic and psycho-social credibility that would shield me from the malicious persecution I suffered in the past, but the loss of the mobile and all my social contacts in Britain was the last straw that tilted the weight in favour of my realisation that my destiny lies with working for my people by being with them and I better act on it earlier than later.

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Good luck and good bye!

As one last blog before I end all my blogging since I need to concentrate on my work; let me tell you that I have never had any association with any militant outfit and readers should not perceive my independent political views in a biased manner, as some people in India do.

And secondly I am a very discreet and conservative person in my sexual life and I have never believed in a sexual relationship with a woman outside of an emotional and marital commitment, and hence please do not pre-judge my friendly interactive personality with women and my admiration for women since I am NOT a womaniser and I have NEVER treated women as sexual objects for my own gratification but as intellectual, creative, cognitive objects of beauty, serenity, maternity, friendship and affection, all which I see in the woman I love and respect, namely Sneha.

I have a tremendous respect and admiration for Sneha, and my love and affection for her was not intended to embarass her or affect her career, and hence, readers or the media should not treat or perceive her negatively and differently because of my open expression of love and affections for her. I am one of many men who desires her, and it is just that I chose an untreaded, honest and sophisticated way to express it and only time will tell whether she chooses me (or unleashes her pet dogs on me!) But my expressions of care and affection for Sneha is sincere, and my innocent and some times humorous blogs on other women I admire does not impinge on the unique love and affection I have for Sneha, and the poetic and verbal proposal I made to her.

And, good luck to all and good bye!

Next time I see you or write in this blog, it would be for informing you about the publication of my book, screening of my film or the opening of the uniqe hospital that I am planning which combines psycho-sexual treatment, counselling and some aspects of conventional psychiatry in India!

Good luck and good bye!

And until then I let the divine Sneha gaze at you at all time!

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(Kindly note the corrections that are highlighted in green, since I consider these corrections important in this important blog, and I have also deleted a sentence implying that it may be difficult for me to meet Thalaivar, because it was wrong since I have no difficulty in meeting him, unless ofcourse he has the time from his busy schedule).

I am suspending all blogging until I meet "Thalaivar" and also Sneha! This is a vow and I want to concentrate on my projects and goals!

I am very depressed and sad over the loss of my mobile over the weekend which entailed the loss of more than 200 contacts I had saved through my social networking over the time, some of whom were members of the media and also men and women from all walks of life, and university students. This is a great loss to me and I am very upset, to put it mildy. I had just moved to a spacious new abode to make good on contacting the people I had met over time and whose list had accumulated due to my procrastination. The only way to undo this loss is to achieve something that gets me some space in the public imagination, so that those individuals who respected me and gave me their contacts (particularly very intelligent, intellectual and thoughtful ladies) will get back to me by knowing where I am and also to enable me to advocate and make the psycho-social changes I want to see in the World, my people and also in me. Making good on the promise of making a remarkable independent film (as I promised in honour of (my proposal) to Sneha, also would enable me to contribute towards achieving the aforesaid aims, and also getting back to India to make some pioneering health care projects in genito-urinary medicine, human rights media and advocacy and counselling, the areas in which I was academically trained in the UK, which in turn I hope will give me the credibility that will save me from the malcious persecution I had unnecessarily suffered in the past.

I request not to be judged by Sneha (if she is even aware of this blog and my loving affections for her), if I fail to complete the film on time and if I instead send the novel and screen-play version of it! But who knows, I may still make the film on time if I dont commit "harakiri" with my disorientated idiocy such as losing the mobile phone, and I have also written a collection of poems called "Pearls and Stones" in honour of Sneha and my love and affection for her!

I may also get back to my political activism, albeit in a more sophisticated, organised, institutional and intellectual manner, and will seek membership in the DMK (but only if the latter allow it, and I hope "thalaivar" does, given the fact that my essential ideology is based on the Dravidian movement!! How about a very good media organ in English for the DMK which I can help organise, contribute and publish at the behest of the DMK since writing for me is as easy as walking!?

Thaalivar should not misunderstand some of the arguments I make in English for the sake of objectivity, equity and legality, because when writing in English and also while making statements on equity one has to make statements that seem as critical when it is not. For example, in the blog in which I criticised the Tamil Nadu Congress chief Krishna Samy on his irrational and illogical request to Tamil Nadu CM on requesting the latter to take action against those who eulogised Tamil Selvan, I had questioned whether Krishnasamy wanted the CM to take action against himself to expose the irrationality, lack of logic and idiocy in Krishna Samy's request and was (is) not a critique of Kalaignar.

Partisan people who are used to a sycophant style of writing may not relate to objective analysis.

I request "Thalaivar" to adopt me as his intellectual and ideological son and also do his father's duty by asking for Sneha's hand in marital partnership to his son (which is me!!) But I thought we already have a "telepathic" Pisirandhiyaar and Kopperuncholan relationship - albeit of a father son variety of two individuals who loved and admired each other!

I am suspending all blogging and I leave Sneha and Thalaivar to look at you forever until I get back to you!

My stand on a belief in God (or rather the lack of it is well known, but many of you have written to me wishing your prayers and I thank you and I respect your sentiments, and I wish you do the same out of my respect for your faith).

I wont be blogging for some time.

A poignant indigenous look playing a hard working rural agrarian woman dedicated to teach rural children in the recent Tamil film "Pallikkoodam":

A still from the shoot of the film in which she fainted recently (but she doesn't look like somebody who was about to faint), but the eyes do look dreary:

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: Cuddlingly chubby cheeked but yet a dangerously heavy duty sultry siren with a megawatt feminine allure and dazzling assertiveness, the no-nonsense and ever-sexy Ms. Sameera Reddy, who despite her naughty and daring popular image seems like she is also undoubtedly capable of kicking the butt of any man who messes with her!

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Misfortune!!

I wont be blogging for a few days because I am depressed since some one stole my very expensive mobile phone. My sense of loss comes from losing all the contact information such as phone numbers and email addresses saved as drafts in text messages but not the monetary value. (I was an idiot to not know that I could have transferred all the information from my mobile to my laptop).

I was staying in a hotel over the weekend to get some time off and to relax, and while I was vacating the room earlier this morning, I just used the toilet, ate at the dining room, checked the room and left. But 10 minutes later I realised my mobile was not on me and immediately rushed back, and while I rushed back I called the hotel manager and told him the mobile should be in the dining room. Then I called my mobile phone that was lost, and some one answered it but kept quiet and there was a background of television or music playing. Obviously some one who is a guest or staff at the hotel should have nicked it. The person who answered the phone did not talk back despite my considerable financial offer if he returned the phone. He simply switched off the phone later. When I went back to the hotel they could not trace the phone, and no member of staff was able to own up to finding it. In the UK, the police have a policy of not investigating mobile thefts due to lack of resources (as I was told by a policeman over the phone) and he said that he will simply able to give a reference number, only if I wanted to claim insurance!

There goes the email addresses and phone numbers of men and women I had met, (and stored in the mobile) with whom I had intended to network and contact later for purposes of friendship and other project related aims, but I idiotically procrastinated on contacting men and women I had met while the contacts piled up, and I lose the contact info like this when I finally get the time to catch up with people I had met! What a shame! I blame it on the early morning haze and half sleepfulness that made me a bit unconscious and forgetful, because I still cant remember where I misplaced the phone! It cant be the toilet and I could not have dropped it on the street (since I would have heard it), and it should have been in the dining room!

I am so depressed and I wont be blogging for some time.

Why not mail?

I never thought of emailing Sneha because I think emails trivialises true expressions and she or her manager of communications might have most probably junked my mails thinking some idiot is sending stupid and pathetic love letters. Hence the only way was to express myself in the media (blog) and the public domain to garner her attention, but in a decent and romantic manner! I hope it works!

I feel that I have been lucky to Sneha because ever since I expressed my desire and affection for her in this blog earlier this year, 2007 has turned out to be a tremenously busy year for her with a lot of films and other assignments! I wish that she gets all that she truly wants in her life!

Disclaimer:

I want to state that my innocent expression of admiration for women other than Ms. Sneha does not in any way impinge on my unique and romantic sense of love and affection for Sneha, and I state this as clarifcation lest I cause offence to her by my positive remarks on other women in previous blogs! My love and affection for Sneha is unique!!!

Sneha adorned by an attire designed by fashion designer Sidney Sladen with which she walked the ramp:

Related thoughts on Sneha:

As for my sincere romantic notions on Sneha the decent thing to do would be to ask my parents to speak to her parents (and I am sure they will think I am wierd to have crest-fallen in love with their artiste daughter whom I have not met in person, and reject me)! But atleast, I will have the satisfaction that I tried proposing! (But I am quite petrified of telling my parents that I am in love with a movie star I have not met, because they already think that I am crazy because of my multi-faceted interests and I am sure they will throw a fit!!!!!! My mother singularly hated me for taking interest in films!!)



This is because Sneha has said in an interview that she will marry only in 2009 or 2010 and that she will only marry some one her parents approve of (and I will be older by two years by then but younger at heart by ten years)! Given this, I have been wasting my time trying to woo Sneha through this blog, instead I should impress her parents! (If any readers of this blog know her parents try to put a good word (but not a bad word) on my behalf!!) I think I should return to India and establish my projects in pioneering aspects of psychological medicine, counselling and human rights law, in which I have trained in the UK, or simply convince Sneha's parents that I am a decent human being. But I have my feet quite planted on the ground and I am under no illusions that Sneha or her parents will like me, and probably Sneha will unleash her pet dogs on me(!), but atleast I am happy that I expressed my adoration and affection for her, truly!

It will be nice to meet Sneha and get to know her before I propose to her parents, and if I complete the independent film "Finding Sneha" by new year (as I promised) it will be a good opportunity or reason for me to meet her, but even then I am scared that Sneha will unleash her pet dogs on me or call the cops!!?? I actually had a dream (nightmare) a few days ago in which I enter (what seems to be) Sneha's house only to have her dogs chase me, and I woke up suddenly with fear !!

With regards to a Tamil film I planned, why I should waste the investment of my friends and myself on a movie that does not cast Sneha? I have decided to wait and cast Sneha herself for my debut Tamil film, even though I may not get her dates for another one year, given the media reports that state she has hands full of films for the next one year! This is because I worked out the investment for the script I had penned, and I felt I may as well wait and cast Sneha after a year (if she agrees of course) instead of casting some one else. Meanwhile I shall make an independent independent thriller in Tamil / English, as I envisaged, and I feel it may not be completed by new year (but still may be)! I just have to keep my fingers crossed while some lucky idiot will bye-pass me and get Sneha!

I have never been lucky in my life, but what-ever happens I wish Sneha all happiness (even if she unleashes her pet dogs on me)!!!!

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

Kittur Rani Chennamma who fought against British occupation of India and was killed by the British:

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet: pioneering radio-physicist and radio-chemist Marie Curie of Poland.

My favourite quote of Marie Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

Ms. Amala Akkineni - Animal rights activist, former performance artist in the silver screen and also a former Bharata Natyam exponent, and a woman of exotic Bengali and Irish heritage who is an active proponent of animal rights in India.

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: Nagma: Popular glamour star, spiritual and social activist cum actress who scorched the screen in the nineties, and who continues to grace the silver screen in ethnic films of Northern India!

Photos: A still from her latest Punjabi film "Ek Jind, Ek Jaan" (top), Nagma seen with Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit from an image of a function dating to 2005 (bottom) and a dated image of her distributing blankets to the poor of New Delhi on the human rights day of 2004 (middle)

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: Pepsico chief and a Tamil woman from Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, who has scaled great heights in her career - Indira Krishnamurthy Nooyi

A groovy and sensational look of my beloved maiden that takes the breath away from me!

Iniyan's favourite musical moments visually and musically:

"En Enakku Nadukkam, En Enakku Mayakkam" from the Tamil film "Naan Avanillai" with a petite and gorgeous Sneha choreographed to tender and romantic dance moves with the lead male Tamil actor Jeevan:

A groovy romantic musical song picturised and choreographed with Sneha and Tamil actor Vijay - from the film "Vaseegara" made in 2003 (which I saw in 2007). As a matter of fact, I saw all of her films only in 2007 with some in late 2006:

Here is another song with glamorous and gorgeous Sneha from a Telegu film with actor Ravi Teja:

I feel that Sneha looks more gorgeous in Telegu movies than Tamil films because of more attractive costumes and glamorous make-up which gives generally a different look and get-up. Here is a telegu song from the film "Maharathi" with NTR Balakrishna in which she looks absolutely ravishing (!!!!!!!!)

Some videos of Sneha from "You Tube" since "You Tube" videos have started working again in blogger; Here is an interview from a Tamil channel earlier this year:

Iniyan's favourite musical moments visually and musically:

"En Enakku Nadukkam, En Enakku Mayakkam" from the Tamil film "Naan Avanillai" with a petite and gorgeous Sneha choreographed to tender and romantic dance moves with the lead male Tamil actor Jeevan:

Correction:

In a previous note I had referred to this blog as a pictured blog on cinema and (and a celebrity I am enamoured with) which was erroneous and devoid of a phrase and the corrected version should be read as follows: pictured blog on cinema and women I admire and respect (and a celebrity I am enamoured with).

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I am concerned that my writings on Sneha should not affect her career and media image:

I was relieved to see an image of Sneha in the most recent edition of “Kumudam" and also in Dinakaran”. This was because I was (and am) very concerned that my writings on Sneha should not affect her career or media standing and success in her chosen profession. Hence I will be writing less on her. I request the media and film professionals not to view Sneha with prejudice based on my writings and expressions of adoration and affection. I would be the last person to see her career or media image to be affected by my writings on her because I adore her as a performer and I want her to scale new heights, different facets, challenging characters, more glamorous roles and higher success critically, creatively and financially.

Let me make it very clear that I have not interacted with her even by email and I have never spoken to her, and never met her but I will (and fervently hope to) one day, given my love and affection for her. But I request friends and professionals in the media and films not to use my writings as a reason to affect her career or media image negatively. She is first and foremost a great performer, a beautiful person and an attractive media celebrity, and I would be very sad if my expressions of love and affection are seen as a reason to affect her forays in media and film, given the notoriety I enjoy in the perception of some quarters.

I have been forced to write this because I got the feeling that the media is marginalising her!!!Cases in point are two instances from Kumudam magazine. In the issue of "Kumudam" dated 12.09.2007, to a question on who is the most beautiful actress in Tamil cinema “Arasu” had excluded all the names of every actress working in the field currently by mentioning each of their names except Sneha’s to imply the latter as the answer, but the image of the answer did not contain Sneha’s image but of a different performer. A direct answer pointing to Sneha would have gladdened the hearts of many, particularly mine!! It was obvious that “Arasu” wanted to give the answer “Sneha” but wanted the readers to guess the latter answer and hence was beating around the bush for the sake of humour, but the fact that the answer was not accompanied by Sneha’s image but of another performer would have led the readers miss the point!!! Similarly in another recent issue of Kumudam there was a cheeky but hilariously entertaining report on a “survey” on “actresses with the most beautiful “figure” (as pertaining to the waistline as a measure of attraction), in which Sneha was ranked “third”, but again the report did not contain her picture!!!!

I am very concerned that Sneha should not be denied her career growth, glamorous media reports and colourful image just because I write lovingly and adoringly of her when I have not even interacted or met with her.

Hence please don’t view my writings on Sneha with prejudice or with negative implications for her professional or media image. Please. I will try to reduce my writings on Sneha and instead focus on my plans to meet her instead, which is easier said than done, and I hope to make the film as I promised in an earlier blog, but I think the deadline for completing the film may be prolonged.

As they say, old habits die hard particularly those that pertain to the heart, and I may post another poem on Sneha or an excerpt from my screenplay “Finding Sneha”.

But let me hasten to add and emphasize that Sneha is in a different league and is incomparable to anyone else, and is the most attractive woman, thoughtful person and intelligent performance artist I have known lest I cause offence to her by my positive remarks on Deepika Padukone or other women in previous blogs!

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Om Shanthi Om !

(The photo is a still from the film "Om Shanthi Om")

"Om Shanthi Om" is a mediocre film story wise, but I found it to be a melodramatically, musically and visually entertaining film - with a large part due to petite model turned actress - Deepika Padukone who retrieves the film with her magnetic screen presence!

I recently saw Farah Khan's "Om Shanthi Om" and enjoyed it. It was a fine example of the traditional musical melodramatic genre of Indian films! No wonder that it is a huge success! The choreography (supposedly by Farah herself - in parts) and the cinematography by a guy with a Tamil sounding name "Mani Kandan" stands out. (He actually happens to be a guy who shot many Tamil films and he has recently moved to shooting Hindi films)! Those in India who feted the Hollywood musical "Moulin Rouge" forget that the Indian film industry churns out hundreds of much better made musical films with more high voltage drama, spell binding music, classically fine tuned Indian songs and mind numbing choreography - all with melodramatic sentiment than any "Moulin Rouge" could manage!

Shah Rukh overacts as usual, but his acting has become so predictably but enjoyably and entertainingly contrived in the traditional Hindi heroic style (like the speech he gives to slum dwellers which is replicated at the film awards function by the "born again" character later), that one can actually see it as a parody of the cliched image of the Indian box-office male star, but an enjoyable and entertaining one at that ! I am not being sarcastic here and let me hasten to add that Shah Rukh is actually a good and thoughtful actor and is capable of more natural performances when challenged, but he is too much of a commercial "Badshah" to get a director who may challenge him to get out of his over-acting, which I should admit, suits his commercial box office status! In actuality, he should be acting the way he does to suit his box office image and people seem to actually like his over-acting style, and I don't blame him! (It may be relevant to cite at this point the other great actor who made natural under-acting as a saleable commodity at the box office which was a more difficult challenge given the time when he entered films, namely Amithab Bachan!)

Of course, I have to mention Deepika Padukone who is absolutely and unbelievably photogenic, and is turned into a screen Goddess by Farah Khan and Mani Kandan, with some explicit visuals, dance moves and fantastic costumes! Deepika has a great screen presence and she will undoubtedly become a huge commercial star given her graceful dancing and quite impressive emoting skills and may I dare to add, a very attractive personality - figuratively speaking!

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

Late Tamil actress and performer of yester-years -

T. R. Raja Kumari:

An image that refreshes the mind:

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Note: I have been blogging on diverse topics in this blog iniyan.blogspot.com but since a few months ago I simply reduced this blog into a pictured blog on cinema and women I admire and respect (and a celebrity I am enamoured with) and started another new blog (indianhumanrights.blogspot.com) as simply a blog for reactive comments on current affairs from India. But the rants, musings and opinion I have been writing on diverse psycho-social, material, psycho-sexual, cultural, economic, artistic, behavioural, medical, global political and other subjects has no place in this blog or my new one, and hence for the latter I have started a new blog called "Iniyan's rants and raves" which will start posting in a week's time, and I will give the web address of this new blog later!

Iniyan's favourite films:

Sidney Lumet's film of David Mamet's Screenplay: "The Verdict".

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

10. Maureen Dowd - Writer and Columnist

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

9. Writer and advocate Naomi Klein.

Unforgettable

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5. Writer, sociologist and activist Ms. Gail Omvedt:

Photo on right: Gail Omvedt lecturing at the Harvard Divinity School

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

8. Historian, writer, professor and people oriented activist, Ms. Romila Thapar!

Best Wishes and Greetings On The Occasion Of Eid:

I wish all those who follow the Islamic path of life my heart-felt and sincere best wishes for long, healthy, happy and prosperous lives on the occasion of Eid!

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Eyes of Life.

A poem on Sneha.

By Iniyan.

Deep welled spring,

With a depth,

That is un-ending,

Which strikes deep

And digs into the ground of my mind, and

Flushes out the water

Of my being,

Of my life,

For others to drink,

And for me to look at

My own watery reflection,

Of my life,

In the springs of my own mind,

As my deepest and unseen persona,

My most unearthed expression,

My unrealised creative self,

And my forgotten humanity,

And my sheathed talents

That never came out to strike –

The enemies of humanity

In the human fold,

And my rusted tenderness,

Of loving a woman,

To see me,

To know me,

To remind me,

Of myself that I forgot,

And repressed,

In the sands of the struggle,

Of what life is.

Those deep springed wells,

With its depth of unspoken thought,

Unwritten Meaning,

Mega-powered Femininity,

That seethes in those small pairs

Of pearly eyes,

Just as the power sheathed

In a small nucleus,

That swells,

Swells and Widens,

Like an expanding horizon of an unending sky,

That carries clouds of rain

That showers me wet,

With moisture sparkling of life,

With chillness,

That creeps,

Creeps into my heart,

And hides in a corner,

And knocks on the door of my mind,

To open up,

And see this new horizon,

And to feel the breath of a new fresh air

Of life,

And to see myself,

That I forgot,

So,

Others can see me,

The real me,

And feel the chillness

Of life,

Sneha,

Your eyes,

Those deep springed wells,

Gives me life.

Brings out the human,

Being in me.

Blessed is the man,

Who drinks from it.

Will I drink from it –

To give me life?

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Apologies:

I am sorry for the delay in posting the poem I promised for Sneha's birthday due to extraneous reasons that affected my time, and I will do so within the next hour.

Happy birthday to Ms. Sneha

Sincere wishes for a very happy birthday and heart-felt wishes for endless returns of this happy day for Ms. Sneha, with a lot more prosperity, ever lasting health and happiness for her, whom I consider to be the most intelligent and versatile performance artist and the most graceful woman in Indian Cinema! My poems and other blogs on the occasion of her birthday will be posted later after 9 am (Indian time), and I posted this brief blog, because I wanted to be the first person to wish her happy birthday of all in the World, since she is the object of my love and adoration, even though I have never met or interacted with her until now!

Iniyan's favourite films:

Coppola's

The Conversation

Iniyan's favourite films: Satyajit Ray's "Ghare Baire"

Iniyan's favourite cinematic moments: Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Eli Pathayam

The climax of Adoor Gopalakrishnan's "Eli Pathayam", when the misfit of a feudal man who withdraws into his own "rat trap" since he is unable to come to terms with the changes around him is forcibly dumped (or rather "immersed" in the river) by villagers to enable him to let go and get out (of his own trap), (if I had pereceived the film-maker's intentions correctly)!

Iniyan's favourite cinematic moments: Burt Reynolds in Blake Edwards' "The Man Who Loved Women" :

The very last scene from the film "The man who loved women", in which the character played by Burt Reynolds who loves and adores all women (meaning "all" women and the entire human womyn gender), departs his earthly body in a hospital bed while envisioning the silhouette of a much womanly nurse standing at the door-step with a flush of heavenly light creaking past the contours of her body! A tragic-comedic but yet a philosophical end to a very interesting character and man! And let me hasten to add that the reasons and factors for my adoration of thinking, powerful and self-empowered women are much more socio-political in nature and driven by my need to see human beings liberated from various destructive constructs, and may differ from that of the character played by Burt in various aspects, the ultimate expression of which is my altruistic love for the gender that gave birth to me and my fellow human beings from their wombs! I truly want to see womyn happy, particularly in my own motherland, and do something to ensure their enduring happiness, even though I am not a perfect man but a guy full of flaws, like any other!

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

7. Ms. Mayawathi, Indian Dravidian politician and mass leader!

A chic (post) modern look!

Let me make it clear that since I address some blogs in first person to the object of my adoration, namely Ms. Sneha, readers should not assume that I am interacting with her in any manner such as electronic mail which is not the case. I am simply an honest admirer and a romanticist poetic man who writes openly about the woman I greatly admire and love, and who happens to be in the public realm as an artiste, and I dont care about judgmental people who may think otherwise about me. The truth is that I am yet to interact with her.

But I will be posting a series of blogs on her birthday on October 12, which also includes a poem. Since I had only posted traditional images of Sneha which are actually a bit dated, I am giving the "new chic look" of Sneha with some recent images!

Iniyan's favourite films:

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:

6. Ms. Teesta Setelvad, Human Rights advocate in the media, and a fearless opponent of Hindutva fascists. An unmatched sparkling jewel among women and men!

Clarification: I am a single bachelor and I do not have any woman currently in my life who has clearly communicated her wish to commit herself to love me for a definite or indefinite period, yet.

Unforgettable women Iniyan had met and known:

4. The late, Dr. (Ms). Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, performance artist, writer, director and producer of films for almost all of the later half of the twentieth century!

Iniyan's favourite Cinematic moments: Sneha in the final shots of "King"!

The final scene of the Tamil film "King" and the particular shot when the character played by Sneha stands with a shivering and shattered look with glistening tears splattering from her face when the terminally ill character played by Vikram is leaving her, possibly forever! A fine emotional moment from a very fine dramatist!

Similarly I had not mentioned the professional background of Ms. Sneha, with whom I am besotted with (but whom I have neither met nor interacted with in any manner until now), but it is only apt to say that she is a media celebrity and dramatic performance artist in film and visual media, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

I had not posted the professional backgrounds of Ms. Sumaiya Zabwala whom I had listed as one of the unforgettable women I had met and known. She is a qualified lawyer and an impending solicitor.

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

4. Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy, the first female medical doctor of India, Indian Dravidian ideologue, and an ardent supporter of Periyar in his fight against Sanathanist Brahmanical bigotry that unleashed the caste system to divide and rule Indian Dravidians and negate their non-Sanathanist religious identities under the fabricated "Hindu" label. She was an activist against the initiation of Indian Dravidian Bahujan and Dalit girl children and women as prostitutes in "Hindu" temples under the garb of "Deva Dasis" to sexually serve Sanathanist Brahmans, Sanathanists and feudal land-lords, and was instrumental in bringing in a legislation to ban temple prostitution in Tamil Nadu state, a practice that still flourishes in states such as Karnataka, Andhra and other parts of India.

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

3. E.V.R. Maniammai, revolutionary activist (and life-partner of socio-political revolutionary Periyar), who worked for the destruction of the caste system and Sanathanist bigotry that divides and rules Indian Dravidians (and negates the latter's independent non-Sanathanist identities of religion and conscience) under the fabricated "Hindu" label.

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet
2. Smita Patil.

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:
5. Poet, Writer and Activist Meena Kandasamy

Unforgettable women Iniyan had met:

3. Dr. Suniti Solomon.

My teacher, academic mentor and inspiration, and an ever affable, warm, magnetic powerhouse of a lady: Dr. Sunthi Solomon, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, activist and advocate for prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS, and a wonderful woman I can never forget, and the wife of my dear teacher and professor, the late Dr. Solomon Victor. I will always remember them both for the love they showered on me, a mere student of theirs!

Unfotgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet: 4. Writer Môhashsheta Debi:

Unforgettable women Iniyan could never meet:

1. Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

I am sorry I forgot to mention that Ms. Brinda Karat is the first woman to be a member of the CPI(M) Politburo, and she has also been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association for the last ten years. And she is married to Mr. Prakash Karat, General Secretary of CPI (M).

Unforgettable women Iniyan is yet to meet:
3. Ms. Brinda Karat, the most graceful, feminine, intelligent, dynamic, people-oriented, far-sighted and beautiful politician in India:

Correction in Clarification:

Clarification: Let me clarify again that I have never met, not spoken, and have not interacted in any manner what-so-ever with Ms. Sneha, the scintillating performance artist from this side of the Vindhiyas. But I will have to one day, and I wish I do, for reasons already stated in this blog.

Unforgettable women Iniyan had NOT YET met:
2. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. Congress.

Unforgettable women Iniyan had NOT YET met:
1. Ms. Suhasini Rajaram (a.k.a.) Sneha

A photographic Series On Unforgetttable Women Iniyan Had Met:
2. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:

A photographic Series On Unforgetttable Women Iniyan Had Met:
1 : Ms. Sumaiya Zabwala

Iniyan's unforgettable films:

My request to Sneha (and also to others and all): Please dont get scared by my previous political writings in this blog or in my other blog indianhumanrights.blogspot.com. I am actually a very soft spoken, tender, artistic, creative, vulnerable, and romanticist man, and please don't judge me without meeting or knowing me based on my political writings. That is why I removed all political writings from this blog, except those relevant to the media. My forays into political issues and human rights activism was based on my interest to ensure that my fellow human beings and citizens are not hurt or violated for no fault of theirs, which is an extension of my duties as a doctor, because health encompasses social health along with physical health and mental health. I am what one may call an accidental activist (if one may wish even an accidental social revolutionary).

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Iniyan's famous Cinematic moments: Shyam Benegal's Junoon:

The climactic scene from the film Junoon set during the period of the Indian uprising against the British rule of 1857, (with the inspiring violin arrangement by Vanraj Bhatia in the background), is some thing that is etched in my memory. The Indian rebel chieftain character played by Sashi Kapoor is about to ride off in his horse leaving his object of love - the English teenage girl played by Nafisa Ali and her mother (played by Jennifer Kapoor) behind, when Nafisa Ali comes running out and shouts (and rather speaks to him) for the first time : "Javed!" Sashi Kapoor ponders at her for a few minutes and still rides away never to meet her again! Another moving tale of unrequited love with a musical score that drives a wedge into your nerves!

The closing credits of the film says that the character played by Nafisa Ali never married again, but I dont know whether the film was based on fiction or some kind of a biography.

I consider "Junoon" to be the finest work of Benegal.

Iniyan's favourite Cinematic moments: Abrar Alvi's Sahib - Biwi - Aur - Ghulam:

The nerve wracking emotional scene when the character played by Guru Dutt finds the mortal remains of his lady love several decades after she was barbarically murdered by her husband's feudal brothers and family while eloping with him (when he served her as a young servant), in this fantastic tale of unrequited platonic love between a servant and his lady, the suppression and neglection of women in feudal families, the criminal irresponsibility and decadence of feudal men and the barbarism of destroying love for prejudice and bigotry, and the tragedy of unrequited love. Naturally and expectedly, "tragedy queen" (the late) Meena Kumari plays her role with aplomb! I am referring to the classic Hindustani film by the name "Saheb, Biwi or Ghulam" (supposedly directed by Abrar Alvi) and produced by the imitable Guru Dutt who was blessed with great talent but doomed in life.

One of my directorial inspirations: the late Stanley Kubrick:

Iniyan's favourite cinematic moments: Stanley Kubrick's

"Sparatacus"

The climax in "Sparatacus" when Kirk Douglas (playing the leader of the slaves who have rebelled against Roman imperialism and their slavery) is found dying on the cross crucified, and his wife and ex-slave woman (played by Jean Simmons) holds aloft their child and utters words to the effect that his son is not a slave and was born free! (How much I want this to be said for my Indian Dravidian brothers and sisters in India who are bound by the evil descent based caste system imposed by the Sanathanists' law of Manu [incorporated in the Hindu law] that divides and rules them, co-opts their independent religious identities with the socio-legally fabricated "Hindu" label, imposes labour exploitation and stigmatises their identity for life!)

My pitiful and desperate request to Sneha: please dont get engaged or married to another man, please!

Ron Silver and the poster of "Enemies - A Love Story"

Iniyan's favourite cinematic moments: starting with Ron Silver.

I have decided to post a series of blogs on my favourite cinematic moments that stands ever-green in my memory. And when I started to think about it the immediate memory that came to my mind was the scene where the character played by actor Ron Silver heart-wrenchingly cries alone in a night (standing near what I remember as banks of a river or a lake, or it could have been a street) in the movie "Enemies - A Love Story". If I remember correctly, Silver played an emotionally tortuous and tortured Holocaust survivor and an (unwitting) polygamist in the film.

Silver was (and is) one of my favourite actors. But let me hasten to add that I have major disagreements with his politics, since Silver is also a politically active man in the Zionist cause. But my disagreements with certain tenets of his politics does not take away my respect and awe for his awesome screen presence, scorching dynamism on screen and incredible capacity to get into the skin of his character. It always beat me why he did not become a major Hollywood megastar like Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis. May be he is one of those big-wigs behind the screen and not in front of it. But it is a shame that he didn't choose to become a major international Hollywood star in the likes of Cruise, Ford, etc.

Correction - Poem on Sneha:

The poem I mentioned in the previous blog on Sneha is actually in English and may be posted later, and a Tamil version or rather a separate Tamil poem may be posted later when the film I am making is ready for screening. Hence the previous blog stands appropriately corrected.

I think I have to change the name of this blog from "freethinkingman" to that of "Sneha loving man"! Truly, I have been absolutely swept away by Sneha!

I had conveyed best wishes for Sneha's health (in a previous blog about her fainting attack) under the name of her admirers, fans and well wishers. But more honestly, I should have conveyed the best wishes for her health in the name of myself, namely, Dr. R. S. Sridhar (alias) Iniyan Elango, who fervently, affectionately and lovingly cares for her welfare, happiness, health and continued success in life with tender love and care. I hope she has a never ending return of her birthday, which falls in October (next month)! And I hope I complete the film I am making by December so that it can be dedicated to her! I hope I get to meet her before she gets engaged to another man! Frankly, what a fantastic woman she is!!

Note: As I already notified, kindly refer to my new blog at indianhumanrights.blogspot.com for my views on socio-political, human rights and issues other than the arts, cinema and Sneha.

Best Wishes to Sneha's health and appetite in other Dravidian languages:

Ollu Soosko, Baaga Thinu! (Telegu)

Nimma Arogya Chennage Noduko Beku! Chennage Thinna Beku! (Kannada)

Sareeram Nannai Nokkuga; Oonu Nannai kazhi (chan) [Malayalam]

No need to diet:

Does this beautiful, intelligent and dynamic woman need to slim down on a diet that makes her faint while working? The answer: a resounding "No"!!

Some may even say that she has a classically super-attractive hour-glass figure in this image even though I am not a figure conscious sexist who measures the attractiveness of a woman through her body size!

Bette Davis - It was all about Eve!

Al Pacino - Explosive Dynamite of an Actor!

Welsh actor Richard Burton: A rare combination of stardom and old school acting skill that one does not find these days.

Welsh actor Richard Burton: A rare combination of star and master actor that one does not find these days.

Clarifying note on a previous blog:

My statements in a previous blog ("Sanathanist agenda in the visual arts") was not intended to justify the alleged crimes of any actor or individual but was based on several precedents and evidence that is available from the past and the present when the law was seen to treat a Sanathanist or Sanathanist appeasing individual / celebrity differently and more sympathetically than the one seen as not being sympathetic to the Sanathanist cause, when it comes to the deliverance of Justice.

Descriptive Note:

Some of my readers may have felt that my blog titled "Sanathanist agenda in visual arts" did not conform to my earlier promise that this blog will only be about films and artistes, and ofcourse - the lady who has smitten me - Sneha.

But media cannot exist separately from the socio-political factors that influences and controls media and people who work in the latter, and hence the blog was relevant. My only oversight was that I forgot to state that media professionals, (particularly in films) will be spared the various methods of "co-option to Sanathanist agenda" I stated in the previous blog if they voluntarily abide by the Sanathanist agenda in their political or apolitical activity, as most actors, performers and film-makers in India indeed do!

I am a keen consumer of Neil LaBute's artistic products.

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Sanathanist bigots' agenda in the visual arts:

If an Indian Dravidian person (derided as a Shudra or a Panchama by the Sanathanists) finds talent or ingenuity in a particular field, particularly in the arts such as films, it will be ensured that he or she appeases the Brahman led Sanathanist agenda by various means, and these various means are as follows: It will be ensured that the successful artist appeases Sanathanist Brahman cultural agenda (like the way Ilaiya Raaja did), if that does not happen it will be ensured or suitably desired or expected that the talented individual gets (or seen as) married to a Brahman / Sanathanist (like way it happend to M.S. Subba Lakshmi, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and many other non-Sanathanist stars of today or yesteryears) so that they will not take an anti-Sanathanist stand politically or artistically, and even if that does not happen it will be ensured that the individual’s talent and star status does not serve the Indian Dravidian people by ensuring the artist’s corruption with alcohol, drugs and self-destructive behaviour, and even if this does not happen the individual’s career will be destroyed by other methods such as income tax raids, false accusations, criminal cases etc., (as it happened to several individuals such as M. K. Thiyagaraja Bhagavathar and N.S. Krishnan, or like the way it is happening to Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan).

Hence it is not easy to be a non-Sanathanist artist in the visual media unless one appeases the Sanathanist Brahman agenda.

No talented individuals from a non-Sanathanist background in the arts survived such a sinister onsalught by the Sanathanist racist agenda and sustained a sense of independence to serve the interests of their peoples by refusing to appease Sanathanist Brahmanism through the aforesaid methods. The only person who refused to appease Sanathanist Brahmanism and still managed to survive could be Tamil actor Sathya Raaj, and that was because of his wealthy feudal background and a keen acumen for his commercial interests.

Even artist M.F. Hussain could not escape this onslaught and he is now living a self-imposed exile.

Hence it was ensured that no artist from the visual media or indeed the arts represented the socio-political and material interests of the Indian Dravidian peoples as an artistic icon. Even MGR was unable to overcome this agenda because he corrupted the Dravidian self-respect ideology at the behest of Brahmans and split the DMK party.

So if a talented individual is not seen to appease the Sanathanist Brahman agenda in the visual media in the various ways as described above, he or she will not be allowed to succeed or sustain their success.

Media professionals, (particularly in films) will be spared the various aforesaid methods of "co-option to Sanathanist agenda" if they voluntarily abide by the Sanathanist agenda in their political or apolitical activity, as most actors, performers and film-makers in India indeed do!

I am a fan of Kathryn Bigelow, one of the few original womyn film-makers dwelling to the west of Sunset Boulevard. I liked her more when she used (briefly appearing) Tamil language words in a climactic scene for the film "Strange Days"!

Francis Ford Coppola produced and Godfrey Reggio directed "Koyaanisqatsi" was in my collection and I cannot explain this film in a few sentences, because it has no characters or dialogues, but a conglomeration of mind boggling moving images conjuring up life in this planet and the forces that threaten the latter.

This film of James Caan was in my collection in Chennai before my "bro" ruined it (and hundreds of other films) in the name of "circulating them for profit" while I was away in USA in the early nineties.

Speaking of Caan, people only remember him for playing the son in "The God Father", while I like him in his lesser known films.

Progress report on my film: I had a meeting with a British actress of Indian descent yesterday in a nice coffee shop and we had a great conversation for two hours. We discussed the script prospects and the roles. I think she may play one of the leads, but I don't know how she will react on reading the script! But she seems game for a creative challenge which is off the beaten track! I think that we will jell as a creative team! I made it clear to her that the movie will be filmed under the Dogma format but that the film won't be a drag! But I am resolved to complete the film by December! And I have got a great plot line! My self imposed dead-line for the screenplay is the middle of October. I will lock myself up in a hotel room for 15 days to complete the play and the novel version of it! I will be asking Sneha to act only in my next film (if she even agrees to consider my script) only after I complete this film for reasons stated already, and also because she will be more convinced of my seriousness as a film-maker after I make my first film (with all dedication to her), since she may be wary of me given my protestations of love and admiration for her in this blog!

My medical college friends descended from no where to meet me, call me and support me last weekend after a long time and we had a nice get-together! Some them may be investing in the film project! What a shocking but very positive surprise! It was very empowering to know that my medico friends are still with me and you know what, they love me and do not judge me, despite knowing everything about me, unlike some other people! I am proud of my friends and class-mates from MMC!

Sidney and Bill: Legends of American Cinema:

I grew up on (or fed myself) a cinematic staple of Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier, as a young teenager, and the classic Black American actors formed part and parcel of cinematic repertoire of study. One of my favourite films starring them was "Uptown Saturday Night" a classic comedy drama written around two young and poor working class black men in search of a fortune, played by Poitier and Cosby!!

One of my favourite film roles: Jack Nicholson plays a man who screws up his life into "Five Easy Pieces":

Notes on my past brief relationships:

It is strange that the only two brief relationships (I have had in my life) were with women who pursued me and whom I did not pursue. Hence, here-after I will have a relationship or marriage only with a woman I pursue and fancy and not with a woman who pursues me. Since I was loyal to the concept of integrity and loyalty, I tried my best to be loyal to these two women (Gounder and Udayar) even though they had initiated their relationship for their own nefarious aims (money, property, career, status, etc., and not out of love, care, affection and friendship). When they disappeared from my life after a brief dalliance with me (for less than or about a year respectively), without any whim or reason, I was terribly traumatised and tried to find some reason and humanity from them, and tried my best to re-establish contact and communication with them thinking that they were acting against their will. But it dawned on me very belatedly that these two women were malicious, nefarious and initiated a relationship with me for various selfish reasons when they were not even capable of elementary care and affection, and as soon as they realised that they cannot have a relationship simply being dependent on me without giving me feeding back of love, friendship, understanding, romantic affection or intellectual warmth, they scooted, and in turn acted against me with malice!

Note:

As I said, I will be posting my views only on movies, artistes, and my favourite star and woman (Sneha) in this blog. All views on socio-political issues and other issues, will be posted in my other blog indianhumanrights.blogspot.com. My views on my personal life issues and perspectives will be carried inter-changeably in both the blogs.

My advice to Sneha (health-wise):

Even though various websites carried conflicting reports on where Sneha suffered a fainting attack, with earlier reports saying that she fainted at the shooting in Ongole due to late night schedules and later reports saying that she fainted at the Ramoji Rao film studios in Hyderabad, my concern is only about her health given her lean and emaciated figure in recent films. I am only concerned as a doctor and a behavioural therapist whether she is suffering from "Bulimia or Anorexia", common disorders affecting models and actresses who want to starve themselves thin for a lean figure! Even Princess Diana suffered from such a disorder! My advice to Sneha: keep the voluptuous look, (people love you for your voluptuous looks and NOT for any emaciated thin figure), don't worry about your figure, and focus on your acting skills and characters on screen, become a great international and national performer, increase your knowledge of acting, films and film-making and give a damn about your figure! AND ALSO TAKE A LOT OF REST AND PERIODIC BREAKS AND HOLIDAYS!!!! Please dont hurt your health! Please! And please keep your smile! Millions around the world love you and are very worried about your health! Eat well, sleep well and take a break! As they say in Tamil: "Udambai Parthukko, Nalla Saappidu"! Take care and be happy! You are a fine talent and a rare artistic find, and a warm human being! The time is not far way when you will be feted by the entire world as a great performer! You are a fine woman and dont let anything or any body hurt your health! Believe me, there are millions of people around the world, Tamils and otherwise, who love you and want you to keep great health and good cheer! May this blog find you in fantastic health and vibrant cheer! Take Care!

Note:

Check out my new blog exclusively for socio-political and human rights issues at indianhumanrights.blogspot.com

I will be carrying posts only on my views concerning the arts and the cinema in this blog (iniyan.blogspot.com) any more. This will purely be a blog on my views on films and artists, and particularly my favourite ones, and more particularly on the singular one I most adore, admire and bestow affection on !

Wishing Ms. Sneha good health and a speedy recovery and a very long life (and also my wishes for her to eat food and not starve while working!) (Photo of Sneha organising a feast for school girls on her birthday on the right shows that she is a good host at letting others feast but a bad eater herself, given the fact that she faints without eating while working! It seems to be time for her to be feeding herself what she feeds others)!

I was perturbed and shocked to read news reports in the internet that Ms. Sneha fainted during a shooting of a Telegu film in Ongole a day ago because of her hectic shooting schedule. As a physician I can say that it may be due to the fatigue of working long hours and hypoglycaemia (lack of sugar in the blood due to improper intake of food and long working hours without proper food)! I wish she looks after her health in the interest of millions of her well-wishers, admirers and fans world-wide, and takes regular food, or at least a chocolate bar and fruit juice periodically to get her blood glucose going if she is working long hours and schedules! And she should also take multi-vitamins and iron tablets every day for replenished nourishment!

May be she should take a break and take rest!

I request directors to give her adequate rest and not to over-work her while shooting, and kindly ensure that she eats!

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Stopping:

I am stopping all blogging on socio-political and human rights issues in this blog and shifting all blogging on such issues to a new blog called indianhumanrights.blogspot.com, which will carry new posts. And I have posted a few already.

I will be carrying posts only on my views concerning the arts and the cinema in this blog (iniyan.blogspot.com) any more.

This will purely be a blog on my views on films and artists, and particularly my favourite ones, and more particularly on the singular one I most adore, admire and bestow affection on !

The classic poster from the Hitchcockian thriller and actor Ray Milland from the film:

The classic poster of Denzel Washington in and as the Black American Revolutionary Malcolm X in the film by Spike Lee:

The Master Director and the Star: Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise in the shooting of the film "Minority Report":

A classic poster of "Blade Runner" from the eighties:

Potential to become one of the greatest performance artists of India:

Sneha is not getting the due recognition and opportunities (both in terms of more character roles of serious films and glamorous female leads in commercial fims, and also in terms of awards), despite the talent she exudes for a simple reason: she is not a Brahman or a super fair skinned Sanathanist North Indian like most female performers in films of South India, and also because she does not compromise on her sense of integrity like some other female performers from the South. But I would say that she is a great talent of international calibre and she will become the greatest actress South India or even India has ever known, if she is patient and gets some hard hitting roles, and dedicates herself to a life long professional career in acting, writing and also directing, if that is what she wants. She can fill in a void that needs to be filled as a cinematic icon for the real, modern and independent Indian Dravidian woman.

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A brief note with a brief review of the film "Pallikkoodam":

I am reducing the frequency of all blogging vastly until I complete my film which has to be ready for screening by the end of December (as I averred), which itself is a major creative and material challenge that I have imposed on myself for obvious reasons. Until I complete the film I regret the paucity in blogging.

I need to seriously focus and complete the film by the end of December. And I also need to balance the film-making and media projects I have planned with allocation of time for re-igniting my focus on the medical profession and academic opportunities after a period of higher academic training I completed.

This does not mean that I will not blog here and there. And it also does not mean that I will not change my decision and blog profusely due to some issue that has angered me!

I wanted to write an objective review of the film "Pallikoodam", but I may not do so now. I am in no mood to write but to actualise. And I will wait till I see a good copy of the film since I saw bits and pieces of scenes from a badly pirated version. But briefly, I have to say that the performances of Shriya, Sneha and Thangar Bachaan stands out from the few scenes I saw. I can make a wholesome comment on other actors in the film only after I see an original DVD version.

Shriya's innate and excellent dramatic skills comes out to the fore in the shocking scene where she is humiliated by bigoted villagers. It is a shame that Shriya is not getting more challenging parts to play in mainstream cinema.The caste prejudice of the feudal mindset amongst villagers is well brought out in the film. Sneha gives a controlled, mature, calm and confident performance of the acting veteran that she has already become! I appreciate the fact that the film-maker's heart is in the right place and his concern for the appalling state of primary education in India has to be sincerely commended and praised. Thangar's acting skills comes out as a natural since he plays a character he can relate to very well, since the film is based on his novel. But I reserve my analytical comments on the narrative style of the film which does not break away from the time-tested cinematic narrative practiced by Indian film-makers, but still the film has to be welcomed for its message.

My socio-political comments on the "real" reasons on why primary and secondary education is badly neglected in India are as follows:

To make a long story short, there was (and is) no investment in universal and standardised primary and secondary education in India because the governance of India was high-jacked by those (Sanathanists) who believed that literacy should be their exclusive preserve and prescribed the "pouring of the molten lead into the ears of those lowly born (Shudras and Panchamas) who dared to even hear the recital of the written word", according to Manusmiruthi which forms the core of the constitutionally sanctified Hindu Law in India. Thus illiteracy was enforced on the Indian Dravidians by the Sanathanists for centuries, and Sanathanists wanted to preserve the "caste based professions" that was used to divide and rule the Indian Dravidians and make the latter accept the aforesaid division and negation of their independent religious identities by the blanket imposition of the "Hindu" label on both the Sanathanist racio-exclusivist apartheid class and the Indian Dravidians divided and ruled by the latter. Thus Sanathanists had no qualms as long as Indian Dravidians were divided and exploited with their caste descent based professions, even if the latter managed to indulge in some kind of feudal land ownership and trade that made a few of them wealthy, as long as literacy and the resultant positions of governance and intellectual leadership was the monopoly of the Sanathanist class and of the Brahmans in particluar by way of the banning of literacy on Indian Dravidians (including the landed classes amongst the latter), based on the dictums of Manu that poured molten lead into the ears of the Indian Dravidians (Shudras and Panchamas) who dared to hear the recital of the written word.

That is why Sanathanists were against investing heavily in whole sale primary and secondary education in India, because as long as Indian Dravidians were imprisoned in illiteracy and caste based menial professions and divisions, while being deluded into accepting the latter and the monopoly enjoyed by Sanathanists as the literate intellectual, judicial, bureaucratic, military, media and high-artistic ruling class of India, (by way of the Hindu label that is ludicrously imposed on both the Indian Dravidian masses thus divided and ruled, and also on the Sanathanist racio-exclusivist religionists), thus fooling the Indian Dravidians into accepting their division by cheating them into falsely believing that they share a religion with the Sanathanists when the reality is that Indian Dravidians (Shudras and Panchamas) have no elementary right to the sacramental and scriptural membership of Sanskritic Sanathanism - the racio-exclusivist religion of the Sanathanists that is codified in Hindu law.

I have also post-poned the blogging of an article that was published in a London journal for various reasons that can be explained later, but the article will be blogged later, but only after the published version is out and in circulation. There are many people and forces who dont like me because of my views on socio-political issues or simply out of prejudice of various varieties (such as caste bigotry, racism or Sanathanist Brahmanical supremacy), and who have simply scuttled my forays into various creative, academic and professional fields in the past out of their prejudice, (and also tried to sabotage my happiness in my personal life) due to their envy based on Sanathanist Brahmanical supremacy or plain caste prejudice. Hence I will not reveal details of my work in the British media until I fully succeed.

Right now, I want to focus only on the film, if I dont want to cut a sorry figure in December as a film-maker and as a romantic man in love.

I want to give myself a break from all socio-political ranting and raving (even in the form of film reviewing) until I succeed in attaining personal success as a man in projects that are important to me as a person, which is what is important to me right now.

Blade Runner strikes again: My all time favourite film is out with a new director's cut!

Ford, Harrison - lights up the fires with a sizzlingly and menacingly dramatic performance with his trade-mark cynical (on-screen) action persona as a futuristic cop out to kill rebellious androids in this cinematic pondering of the future of humans and life, and a celluloid metophor for many current situations human beings find themselves in! I have seen the film some twenty times and may see it again, for Ford's and Rutger Hauer's haunting performances (and also for Sean Young)!

My brief review of the Tamil film "Pallikkodam" is impending.

(Image: Tamil novelist and film-maker Thangar Bachaan shares a hearty laugh with the leading lady of the aforesaid film, namely, Sneha)

Lars Von Trier and the goals and rules of the Dogma Collective of film-making:

(With thanks to Wikipedia)

The goal of the Dogme collective is to purify filmmaking by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, postproduction modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors' performances. The audience may also be more engaged as they do not have overproduction to alienate them from the narrative, themes, and mood. To this end, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg produced ten rules to which any Dogme film must conform. These rules, referred to as the VOW OF CHASTITY, are as follows:

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   Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).


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   The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed, i.e., diegetic).


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   The camera must be a hand-held camera. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. (The film must not take place where the camera is standing; filming must take place where the action takes place.)


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   The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).


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   Optical work and filters are forbidden.


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   The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)


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   Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
   Genre movies are not acceptable.


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   The final picture must be transferred to the Academy 35mm film, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, that is, not widescreen. (Originally, the requirement was that the film had to be filmed on Academy 35mm film, but the rule was relaxed to allow low-budget productions.)


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   The director must not be credited.

Chemmeen:

Ramu Kariat's film of Thagazhi Sivasankaran Pillai's (Malayalam language) novel that challenged conventional cinematic norms of that time and also affirmed the woman's rightful need of a man's love, by challenging the hypocrisy imposed on her, albeit tragically. A cinematic master-piece from the perspective of South Indian Cinema. The poster shows actors Madhu and Sheila, but leaves out the legendary Sathyan, who played the fisherman doomed in love and life.

Nargis Dutt - Indian and feminine cinematic icon.

Women and Womyn: I try my best to spell "women" as "womyn" as some feminists want to, but I can't escape old habits.

Lauren Bacall now (left) and with Bogey (Humphrey Bogart - top photo), her real life husband and on-screen creative partner. Bogey's essaying of grovel voiced and unflappable tough man characters with a vulnerability for women was (and is) legendary, which makes him my most favourite actor, despite the fact that he passed away in the fifeties.

Lauren Bacall - the ultimate queen of cinematic intrigue and who makes my heart shudder with her ever-green performances on screen!

Nastassja Kinski

One of the many womyn performers who greatly intrigued and challenged me as a teenaged self studying student of drama and film, and who inspired me to explore the perspectives of womyn in my thoughts as a writer, dramatist and film-maker: German actress - Nastassja Kinski

Kannamba: My favourite Indian actress who exuded such dynamism and screen power, and a startling commanding diction over dialogue delivery (that too in chaste literary Tamil despite her native language being Telegu), which actresses of today have no idea about, given their penchant for showing off flesh rather than dramatic skill! She was simply great! For starters, one should see the climax of the film "Manohara" directed by the cinematic doyen L.V. Prasad and written by Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi.

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Fundamental Violation:

The fore-most persecution that insults my intelligence and violates my humanity is the arbitrary imposition of the Hindu label on me against my (and my fellow Indian Dravidians') freedom of thought, conscience and religion that negates their (and my) non-Sanathanist independent religious and conscious identities (such as atheism, Saivism, Vaishnavism, Jainism, Buddhism, Narayana Guruvism, Sikhism, Lingayatism, Bunts religion, Vallalarism, Ayya Pathism, rural folk religions, etc.,) and also dehumanises, divides and rules them with the imposition of the caste system and the "Shudra" (bastard) label, and cons them into accepting this inhumanity and misery by fooling them into thinking that the Sanathanists who impose this divide and rule misery share the same religious "label" as those divided and ruled by the Sanathanists, by way of the fraudulent imposition of the Hindu label on the Sanathanists and the Indian Dravidians divided, ruled and derided by the Sanathanists as "Shudras" and Panchamas", which is particularly galling when the same Hindu law codifies only Sanathanism as the basis for Hinduism and bans the Indian Dravidians (Shudras and Panchamas) from elementary scriptural and sacramental membership of Sanathanism.This fraud and delusion on Indian Dravidians is further perpetuated by the monopoly enjoyed by Sanathanist Brahmans in Indian Dravidian temples which have nothing to do with the Sanathanist Indo-Persian Sanskritic religion.

How can I ever return to India unless this persecution is negated by way of the legal reforms I havd advocated profusely in this blog?

Creation of Wealth:

When I wrote that I wanted to focus on creating wealth, I wanted to emphasize the fact that I was hitherto focusing only on reacting to those factors and experiences that persecuted the human rights of me and my fellow human beings in my own intellectual and advocating manner, but now I want to focus on my individual needs for material, emotional, creative and psychological happiness, which I had ignored until now. And I need to be loved, by a woman of fineness and taste, alluring personality and creative talent, gorgeousness and beauty, kindness and passion, intelligence and independence, and who embodies in my opinion the ideal for the new Indian woman. But only time will tell whether my wishes will be answered or remain unrequited, but I will not leave any stone unturned in my quest.

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Creative Inspiration as an euphemism for plagiarising ideas:

The Sanathanist bigots at “The Hindu” obviously read my blog, as it is obvious from the fact that any essay in this blog on any important issue is followed by a related column or a report in “The Hindu” on the same subject. To cite just a few instances, it happened after I published my blog on corporal punishment and now the aforesaid broad-sheet carries an essay on Cervical Cancer HPV vaccination. The fact that a report or column in “The Hindu” ensues after my blog on the same subject is more than a mere coincidence, because I can cite many such instances in the past.

The guys at “The Hindu” should have the decency to acknowledge my blog or even high-light it, if they want to give credit where it is due for their “intellectual inspiration”.

The same thing happened when Lal Kishan Advani suggested that he wanted a law in India along the lines of the Hyde Act to safeguard India’s interests vis-a-vis the Indo-US Nuclear Act, something I advocated in this blog. He should have credited this idea to a blog written by a guy called Iniyan Elanko (alias R.S.Sridhar).

I request those who derive “inspiration” from this blog to acknowledge the credit, and otherwise they are guilty of plagiarising my ideas and thoughts.

Speaking of plagiarism, I am yet to allocate time to sue the film producer who plagiarised my screen story for a television film in Britain because I did not have time to do research to find out the name of the film and date and time on which it was telecast. May be I should do it this year and serve the guy a notice.

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My cinematic and literary plan to impress Sneha in order to win her love over (and I hope it works)!

I am not ashamed to make myself an utterly idiotic and a complete fool for love, in front of the whole world, as some real men do. After all what is life without bold expression of smouldering passion and romantic creativity?

How will I win the love of Sneha? She doesn’t even know me, she hasn’t met me, she hasn’t spoken to me, I am not even sure whether she reads this blog, and even if she reads it she may (just) think of me as some kind of a wierdo (just as some other judgmental and narrow minded people), and if I call her she may probably hang up, hence, even before I invite her for making a film, she may even get engaged to some Telegu speaking Brahman actor or anybody else from any other background or profession, and I may never even get a chance to meet her!! What can I do to enable her to give myself a fair chance!?

My intention is not to compel or embarass any woman to love me or marry me or partner me in life against her wishes, including Sneha, but just let her know how much she means to me and how much I am inspired by her so that she can make her own decision and give herself a chance to know me and give me a chance to know her and love her! But what should I do?

Hence I have decided to make a film about Sneha without Sneha – a fictional drama and thriller – in which Sneha will not be acting at all, but will be a character in the film, by which I mean that her name and image will be a character in the film but she will appear only as a picture (or referred to in third person abstractly) but she will never appear in the film (but she may appear only as a brief cameo in the climax, if she agrees)! And I will be starting shooting in a couple of weeks if I have to send her a copy of the film by new year! If she is impressed she can play the cameo in the climax and give me a chance to play a role in her life and if not, I would have atleast made a film with Sneha as the motivation and send it to all the film festivals! Who knows, the film may become a cult hit in India and abroad! Even the guys at Sundance and Cannes may like it!

I am not going to give away the story of the film but it will be a Hollywood style brooding psychological thriller in Tamil and English, and will be shot in the format proposed by Danish film-maker and my cinematic hero Lors Von Trier! The film will run for 90 minutes and it may well become a cult hit even in India and enshrine me in the annals of history as the first guy who made a film as an act of propositioning love!!!!

The clock starts now! I hope Sneha doesn’t get engaged to anybody before December!!!!

And I will certainly dedicate the film to Sneha, the queen of smiles, with love!

This will be my labour of love for her, irrespective of whom she chooses to partner in life! But all I want is a fair chance to meet her and get to know her! Then it is up to her even if she spurns me, and I wish good luck and all happiness to her, irrespective of whom she partners in life!

I will also publish the written version of the film as a novel and it will be called “Finding Sneha”. I have started writing it already. Who knows, the guys at Booker may like it!

Ofcourse the dramatic content of the film and novel will be pure fiction.

After all, Sneha has become the inspiration for me to get out of my creative slumber and absolute procrastination!

Karat and Yechury of CPI (M)

I oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal and support the stand of the left:

I dont have the time to write a more analytical blog on why I oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal. Now a days I am more focused on personal issuues that will make me personally happy such as gaining wealth, and also developing strategies and working hard for winning over the woman I desperately seek against all the odds that are stacked against me, given the fact I have not even met her, and that I run the danger of losing her to another man and never getting the chance to even let her know me and decide for herself! (No prizes for guessing whom I am so enamoured with)!

But briefly, I support the stand of the left in the Indo-US nuclear deal, and if I get the time , I will write a more analytical and critical blog on the stand of Ms. Sonia Gandhi on the issue and her leadership, with all due respect I sincerely have for her.

I cannot keep my own stand:

I could not ensure that I would not blog for another month as I averred and I ended up blogging even before the ink was dry on my blogs posted yesterday. I even ended up blogging today on personal issues in contravention to my assertion that I may blog for a month only on human rights, political and medical issues. I guess I am addicted to blogging. May be it is a good thing. I am sure it is indeed a good thing to blog.

Corrections:

Please refer to the corrections in an earlier blog titled "terror advisory" since an important phrase was left out due to a typographical error thereby causing a deficiency in the comment I intended to convey.

Dr. Anbumani's stand on compulsory rural service for medical graduates needs to be supported!

I feel that medical students and medical graduates were (and are) self centered in oppposing the directive ordaining medical graduates to spend a year in rural service. Their stand is selfish and devoid of any sense of social obligation to their fellow countrymen and women who are marginalised in rural areas. If this is the pitiable stand of medical doctors even for a year's rural service, one only wonders what actually happens when doctors are posted to work in rural areas after recruitment?? Dr. Anbumani needs the support of all right thinking people in this issue. I have steadfastly supported Dr. Anbumani in his struggle against the Sanathanist bigots in the AIIMS and the step motherly treatment meted out to him by the Sanathanist controlled media. In my opinion, he is arguably the most effective Health Minister India has had since her independence from British rule, even though the best (by him and others) for the people of India in terms of a national health service is yet to come, and needs to be done!

Clarification: I had criticised the Central Government Minister of State for Railways from the PMK party for "ineptness" given the turn-around of the Railways in the Salem division issue, but I had also read press reports that he intends to issue an unilateral order for inauguration of the division since he legally considers the division as "already" set up! If he is on proper legal grounds and correct on this claim I congratulate him, if not, I have to deride him for making false claims and misleading the people of Tamil Nadu!

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On the look out:

Tomorrow I will be posting the article I wrote for a London magazine! Please be on the look out! I thought I will publish it in the blog after the printed issue of the journal comes out, but the issue may not be out in two weeks, but I am losing patience because I want to share the article with my blog readers!

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Terror advisory?

One does not understand how a “terror advisory” can be issued (as it has been done to Chennai by the Indian intelligence agencies) without identifying the where about and plans of the “terror” attack. If the intelligence agencies have been monitoring the movements, phone calls and communications of potential “terrorists”, how can they issue an advisory without making the aforesaid markers and identities?! Is it simply to scare people or to put the blame on nameless and non-existing terrorists for some explosive subversion unleashed by the Sanathanist controlled intelligenc agencies treasonously on the Indian Dravidian peoples for their "divide and rule" purposes by unleashing communal carnage or to serve their western imperialist masters?

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I was never really married in the real sense.


The truth is that I may have given the wrong impression to readers that I was conventionally married twice. The truth is that I had two brief relationships, and the first one (the Gounder girl’s) was not solemnized as an open and conventional marriage, but since I perceive all life partnerships based on mutual consent from a Periyarist perspective as being marital, based on “self-respect”, I characterized it as a marriage from my own moral perspective. But from a conventional sense it was not a publicly held marriage. Even my second relationship was a brief relationship, which accidentally got solemnized as a public wedding due to some extraneous circumstances (such as the illness of my Aunty), otherwise it would have remained as a brief relationship. Both the women who had a relationship with me made no effort to know or see the real me, particularly my creative and intellectual side (and I don’t blame them since even my parents could not see it!) But my ex-spouses were dishonest, malicious and vexatious in my opinion, and hence, I was the victim. But in fairness to them my life circumstances may have also prevented them from seeing the real me, even though that does not excuse their malice. The only publicly held marriage with the Udayar woman in the second relationship ended in a divorce after a very brief marriage while I was busy defending myself against the malicious prosecution based on “conspiracy to give medicine” and running from pillar to post in various courts of law.


Hence one can say that I was never really married in the real sense.

Correction, and I may indeed blog again, :

I take back the assertion that I will not be blogging for another month and I may indeed blog again, but only on compelling, essential and important topics which are purely based on medical, political and human rights issues. Chances are that may or may not happen within the next month!

Most probably, I will not be blogging for another month because I will be busy with my work and projects, particularly in medicine and the visual media. Bye for now!